Merchant Ship 1, Pirates 0

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by I make oil

It's not always small arms. Often the pirates have RPG's. You do NOT want them to shoot at the vessel with that. If the pirates in that boat had one things would have gone much differently. Africa is an intertesting place to work. We don't have the luxury of being a moving target where I am. We have to use Security vessels in the field. If they get through our permiter security then we have small arms but that is not a good situation to be in.

When I worked in Africa a few years ago, pirates had blown up a gas line just a month or so before I got there. The African Navy had an order out on the river that no boat traffic was to exist after sundown. If any vessel was seen travelling the river that was not African Navy, they would shoot first and ask questions later. Needless to say, since I had to take a small boat to/from the docks everyday, I shut things down around 4:00 to make damn sure I was back at the hotel well before sundown!